Lehigh’s Accelerator Grants support multi-investigator research programs in specific and significant areas of opportunity, allowing flexibility in the use of funds for rapid program growth. One such project relies on researchers in Ghana, Uganda and Guatemala to lead in the examination of short-term medical missions from the host countries’ perspectives.
Dolan celebrates English Romantic writer Charlotte Smith by tracing and telling her story.
Oliver Yao and his team use data, interviews and observations collected along the supply chain to show one of the real causes and effects of the bullwhip effect.
Teachers' perceptions of these policies impact instructional improvement and teacher behavior.
Heather Johnson studies the inverse of the glass ceiling—an “invisible safety net” that keeps children from historically advantaged groups from falling down the ladder of success.
Physicist Rosi Reed works with an international group of scientists and engineers to map quark-gluon plasma’s phase diagram.
The discovery of a new three-dimensional shape could advance understanding of cell topology and the field of regenerative medicine.
Study observes how the interactions between technological growth and specialization patterns between native and immigrant workers affect wages earned by native workers.
Mary Nicholas’ monograph tells the full story of a radical art movement.
Neurons, or brain cells, deliver critical information used by our auditory system to interpret sounds. R. Michael Burger and his team ask: How do they know what type of frequency to detect?
The approach, not widely used in architecture and the building sciences, gives rise to important questions.
Lehigh researchers’ work in foundational optimization aims to improve our ability to learn from massive amounts of data more efficiently.
Christopher Liang and Nicole L. Johnson explore how socialized gender roles can impact men’s and women’s health, contribute to rape culture and amplify cultural problems.
The model and its corresponding open-source software will help researchers understand how the damage process evolves over time.
Peatlands, found in both arctic and tropical climates, can help reduce carbon accumulation in the atmosphere.
A study in the Journal of Accounting Research concluded that the “positive” seen in CDSs could be traced directly back to the sense of “insurance” they provide to lenders.
Slowly adding heat during atomic layer deposition while using an electron beam to monitor the process, Nicholas Strandwitz is helping technology to continue to shrink.
Patricia Manz develops curriculum to improve home visiting services for children with significant developmental needs.
Mickel explores the notion that the exclusively manual work that local site workers do not only exploits them in terms of labor conditions, but also puts them at risk of job loss if they exhibit their work as intellectual or scientific labor.
Barbara Malt and her collaborators examine how we talk about objects across multiple languages—and how that reflects human thought processes.
